By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Walter F. Mondale More Quotes by Walter F. Mondale More Quotes From Walter F. Mondale I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there. Walter F. Mondale my-life political proud life When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee. Walter F. Mondale young-man man young dream